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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
first half
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After a resolute first half, Aberdeen simply dissolved in the second.
▪ Increased demand for its road, rail and sea container fleets during the first half helped boost the latest figures.
▪ Many if not most of them had doubled in size during the first half of the nineteenth century.
▪ The first half of the mile-long walk across the bridge is slightly uphill.
▪ The first half of this quotation is well known to lawyers and is often quoted.
▪ The team played well in the first half.
▪ Virginia Tech shot 39 percent in the first half against us Saturday, then shot 69 percent in the second half.
Wiktionary
first half

n. (context sports English) The period of play before half time, as opposed to the second half.

WordNet
first half

n. the first of two halves of play

Usage examples of "first half".

Dominic, was one of the most distinguished Thomistic theologians during the first half of the fourteenth century.

He was still in Lord Voldemort's employ on the night he heard the first half of Professor Trelawney's prophecy.

He heard shouts below him and then running on the first half of the stairs.

Maskull followed him with some trepidation, in view of his previous painful experience on these stairs, but when, after the first half - dozen steps, he discovered that he was still breathing freely, his dread changed to relief and astonishment, and he could have chattered like a girl.

During the first half of his initial term there was no epithet which was not applied to him.

I took the first half of a deep breath, nodded toward him as casually as a pickpocket saying 'Good morning' to a plainclothes cop.

Godfrey of Fontaines, Doctor Uenerandus, scholastic philosopher and theologian, was born near Lige within the first half of the thirteenth century.

We accelerated the first half of the trip and then decelerated the last half, the tops of boulders and mountains whizzing by seemingly close to our feet.

When the Twelve Points went to the printer, only the first half of the seventh point had been in the text.

He was the chief general for the Bavarian forces in a number of battles in the first half of the war, including the Battle of the White Mountain in 1621 which routed the Protestants rallied under the banner of the Elector of the Palatinate, King Frederick of Bohemia, and returned control of Bohemia and Moravia to the Austrian Habsburgs.